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Sunday, April 10, 2011

Google vs Facebook !

Google is constantly doing its best to improve its search engine and one of its latest features just introduced is the +1 button. They say, this might be Google's answer to Facebook. There have been all sorts of rumors related to this button, but since this button is available for experimental use, we decided to share more information about it.

Basically, +1 button allows you and your friends to like a certain webpage that is listed in your search results. This makes searching a bit easier, since you’ll be able to see how many and which friends liked that particular link. According to Google, we can use +1 button with our search results or ads, and in the future, we’ll see +1 button on other sites as well, so we can like the pages that we’re reading instantly with a single click.

We have to notice that +1 button looks quite familiar to that of Facebok’s, but so far, it’s in experimental phase, so if you want to try it out, you’ll need to sign up for it with your Google account.

Following are some requirements to use this feature:

Google profile:
You need a Google profile to use +1 feature, if you don’t have any profile you can create from here.

Make sure you’re signed into your Google Account:
This feature also required that you have be signed in to your Google Account so that your name can be listed along with the search results or the name of your friends can be shown, if don’t have any Google account you can create it from here.
This feature is in its initial stages they are slowly rolling it out to Google.com in English, they are also planning to show the recommendations from your friend which are on other social networking site like twitter or may be other so that you can get the most relevant recommendations.
As Google is slowly rolling out this feature it may not be available to you but you can try this feature by visiting Google experiment site.
I think this feature will be very useful as you don’t have to check every search result to find the best one, by using this feature you have to only check that how many of your friends or other people recommends it(+1’d this), saving your lot of time and bytes.